Associate Director, Field Strategy, Nephrology

Associate Director, Field Strategy, Nephrology / Immunology

Position overview : The Associate Director, Field Strategy plays a critical role in enabling sales execution by ensuring that field teams have the clarity, insights, and tools needed to drive performance. This role is responsible for aligning key metrics and insights with brand strategy, ensuring that analytics dashboards and reporting tools provide actionable, field-relevant intelligence - ensures insights are turned into action. Rather than creating new tools, data, or systems, this individual orchestrates the seamless integration and application of existing resources, ensuring field teams can focus on flawless execution of sales strategy. They ensure field teams are fully informed, equipped, and leveraging all available tools, insights, and strategic initiatives to maximize impact. This position provides strategic support across multiple regions, partnering closely with sales leadership nationwide to ensure a broad perspective on performance trends and execution effectiveness. Additionally, the role collaborates with the Business Analysis team to ensure field teams have access to actionable insights and a consistent reporting framework that drives informed decision-making at a national, regional, and territory level.

Key Responsibilities

Define & Measure Field Impact :

• Establish KPIs that align with brand strategy to measure the field's effectiveness in driving business outcomes.
• Develop frameworks to assess whether field teams are successfully executing strategic priorities.

Standardize Performance Tracking & Reporting :

Drive Strategic Clarity and Field Engagement & Execution :

Lead Business Review Framework & Execution :

Support Business & Account Planning :

Compliance Management :

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred. Minimum of 7 years of pharmaceutical experience. Prior experience in field leadership roles such as first or second line leadership, regional operational and customer strategy roles or other field-based support roles preferred. Proven experience in data analysis, business intelligence, and strategic planning within a pharmaceutical sales environment. Strong ability to distill data into concise, actionable insights to drive business performance. Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and align across multiple teams.

Proven ability to collaborate with cross competencies :

Minimum $153,700.00 - Maximum $229,770.00, plus incentive opportunity : The range shown represents a typical pay range or starting pay for individuals who are hired in the role to perform in the United States. Other elements may be used to determine actual pay such as the candidate's job experience, specific skills, and comparison to internal incumbents currently in role. Typically, actual pay will be positioned within the established range, rather than at its minimum or maximum. This information is provided to applicants in accordance with states and local laws.

Application Deadline : This will be posted for a minimum of 5 business days.

Company benefits : Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, company provided basic life, accidental death & dismemberment, short-term and long-term disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, student loan assistance, a generous 401(k) match, flexible time off, paid holidays, and paid leave programs as well as other company provided benefits.

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